C++ overtakes Java in language popularity index

Jean J. Sanders

C++ ranks higher than Java in the Tiobe language popularity index for the first time ever, dating back to 2001. Java slipped to a new low in the latest edition of the index. The December 2002 Tiobe Programming Community Index has C++, ranked third, surpassing Java, ranked fourth. It is […]

Elon Musk’s Boring Company is building tunnels to nowhere

Jean J. Sanders

In late 2016, billionaire Elon Musk was sitting in traffic on West Los Angeles’s notoriously clogged 405 freeway while shuttling between one of his Bel Air mansions and SpaceX’s headquarters in nearby Hawthorne. Fed up with “soul-destroying traffic,” he initially suggested adding another layer to the 405 before tweeting out […]

AWS updates its machine learning service SageMaker

Jean J. Sanders

Amazon Web Services on Wednesday added new features to its managed machine learning service Amazon SageMaker, designed to improve governance attributes within the service and adding new capabilities to its notebooks. Notebooks in context of Amazon SageMaker are compute instances that run the Jupyter Notebook application. Governance updates to improve […]